Limit people finder results to Site Colleagues ?

[volkerlux]

Hello,

i'm trying to manage the access-rights in Share and i stumbled upon a problem within the people finder. A user can search for every person within Share, be it a site colleague or not. This is a bit problematic since there may be users which shouldnt be visible to each other (e.g. competitors).
How can i solve this issue to limit the search results to display ONLY the people within the users Site(s)?

regards,
Volker

[kevinr]

The People Finder calls the repository service: /api/people?filter={filterQuery}

This service is implemented by the webscript defined in: people.get.desc.xml. So you would need to change the People Finder component client-side javascript to call a different (or overridden) webscript to perform a different search. I think you will need to implement your own repository side search that constrains the results to users within site groups that are appropriate for the current user.

Hope this helps,

Kev

[volkerlux]

thanks for your tip, kev. I'm thinking about another approach: Is it possible to hide the complete people search for users with a specific role, for instance "consumer"? Where/How can i handle the Accessibility of GUI elements for different User Roles?

-Volker

[kevinr]

Yes this can be done quite easily. The REST API to retrieve the current user site memberships is used often in our components, for example in members-bar.get.js:

      var json = remote.call("/api/sites/" + page.url.templateArgs.site + "/memberships/" + encodeURIComponent(user.name));
      if (json.status == 200)
      {
         obj = eval('(' + json + ')');
      }‍‍‍‍‍

The json object returned contains the site membership details for the given user in the give site.

You could then block out areas of the page with an appropriate #if statement in the freemarker etc.

Kev

[volkerlux]

Thanks!

[rhannink]

Hello,

Thanks for the post above, but the information is a bit to limited for me.

How do I put together the REST API call and the Freemarker file?

Does anyone have a code example?

With kind regards,

Remco